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Hello, all!
I think this is going to go up before anyone’s in 2020; regardless, I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year! May 2020 bring us all joy in a variety of forms.
Ramble of the Day
Let’s do a low-maintenance ramble for us all, distracted with the end of a decade and all that it entails. Below is a list of movies I watched in 2019, and feel free to ask me my thoughts on them if you want (or write your own list, or ignore it — whatever suits you, really). Most of these are movies I watched for the first time in 2019, but some were rewatches. In total, it’s a list of 50 movies, though I may sneak in a few more before year’s end.
- Mary Poppins Returns, dir. Rob Marshall
- The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Eighth Grade, dir. Bo Burnham
- Eden Lake, dir. James Watkins
- Ben is Back, dir. Peter Hedges
- Roma, dir. Alfonso Cuarón
- Paddington 2, dir. Paul King
- Ibiza: Love Drunk, dir. Alex Richanbach
- If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins
- The Wife, dir. Björn L. Runge
- Incredibles 2, dir. Brad Bird
- Cinderella, dir. Kenneth Branagh
- At Eternity’s Gate, dir. Julian Schnabel
- Avengers: Endgame, dir. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
- The Parent Trap, dir. Nancy Meyers
- Creed II, dir. Ryan Coogler
- Walk the Line, dir. James Mangold
- Rocketman, dir. Dexter Fletcher
- Ralph Breaks the Internet, dir. Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
- Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, dir. Quentin Tarantino
- National Treasure, dir. Jon Turteltaub
- Billy Elliot, dir. Stephen Daldry
- Robin Hood, dir. Otto Bathurst
- Yesterday, dir. Danny Boyle
- Downtown Abbey, dir. Michael Engler
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, dir. Vince Gilligan
- Triple Frontier, dir. J.C. Chandor
- The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang
- Parasite, dir. Bong Joon-ho
- Jojo Rabbit, dir. Taika Waititi
- The Irishman, dir. Martin Scorsese
- Booksmart, dir. Olivia Wilde
- Us, dir. Jordan Peele
- Marriage Story, dir. Noah Baumbach
- Crash, dir. Paul Haggis
- Hustlers, dir. Lorene Scafaria
- Harriet, dir. Kasi Lemmons
- A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, dir. John Schultz
- Cheaper by the Dozen, dir. Shawn Levy
- Ford v Ferrari, dir. James Mangold
- The Knight Before Christmas, dir. Monika Mitchell
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, dir. Marielle Heller
- Christmas Inheritance, dir. Ernie Barbarash
- Judy, dir. Rupert Goold
- Die Hard, dir. John McTiernan
- Knives Out, dir. Rian Johnson
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette, dir. Richard Linklater
- Hobbs & Shaw, dir. David Leitch
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens, dir. J.J. Abrams
I try to keep my viewing a little bit eclectic.
tl;dr: All the movies I watched in 2019 (as of December 30, 6:39p ET)
Links of the Day
Rangers say forward Alfredo Morelos was racially abused during the Old Firm derby.
A non-league match between Fisher FC and AFC Croydon was abandoned after a Croydon player racially abused the opposing team.
IFAB said VAR should not be used for “marginal” offside calls.
Roma is in discussions about selling the club to a group led by American billionaire Dan Friedkin.
Today’s longer read: the BBC’s alternative year-end awards